Critical Quote by Barbara Fredrickson

Positive emotions enhance your life. Negative emotions sabotage your life...

— Dr TPChia

People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Negative emotions are a necessary component of emotional health. To deny that negativity is to perpetuate problems rather than solve them.”

— Mark Manson

“Even though common sense would suggest that we should feel most happy if we experience the maximum amount of intense positive affect and not…

— Ilona Boniwell

The benefits of positive emotions don't stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide…

— Barbara Fredrickson

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

— Antonio Damasio

Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and…

— Barbara Fredrickson

Positive emotion is beautiful creation of mind.Its the loveliest thing brain has invented.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

“In other words, negative emotions are a call to action. When you feel them, it’s because you’re supposed to do something. Positive emotions, on…

— Mark Manson

Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.

— Martin Seligman

The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Experiments document that while negative emotions narrow attention . . . positive emotions, especially joy, make thought patterns far more flexible, creative, integrative and efficient.”

— Ken Robinson